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HONDIUS, Henricus (1596/7-1651). [WORLD AND CONTINENTS] -- Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula . Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius 1630. Hand-coloured engraved twin hemisphere map of the world (376 x 542mm), embellished with spandral allegorical vignettes representing the four elements and portrait cartouches of Julius Caesar Claudius Ptolomaeus, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius at each corner. Shirley 336 ' A FINE ORNATE EXAMPLE OF THE DECORATIVE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE TIME '; Van der Krogt I, 0001:1C.1.
HONDIUS, Henricus (1596/7-1651). [WORLD AND CONTINENTS] -- Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula . Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius 1630. Hand-coloured engraved twin hemisphere map of the world (376 x 542mm), embellished with spandral allegorical vignettes representing the four elements and portrait cartouches of Julius Caesar Claudius Ptolomaeus, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius at each corner. Shirley 336 ' A FINE ORNATE EXAMPLE OF THE DECORATIVE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE TIME '; Van der Krogt I, 0001:1C.1. Together with a set of Continent maps: Europa Exactissime Descripta (Van der Krogt I, 1000:1D.2); Africae Nova Tabula (state without decorative borders: Betz 58; Van der Krogt I, 8600:1D.2); Asia recens summa cura delineata (Van der Krogt I, 8000:1D.2); America noviter delineata (Burden 192, state 3; Van der Krogt I, 9000:1D.2). [Amsterdam:] 1631. 4 hand-coloured engraved maps of Europe, Africa, Asia and America (each approx. 374 x 505mm). Titles set in decorative cartouches, seas decorated with sea monsters and galleons, continents decorated with beasts. (All maps evenly browne...